Zero!

Zero Megawatts...
The plant has come to a complete standstill....
Not much demand for power due to the weekend and some others can produce for lower price (it's hard to say it but the nukes have a lower costprice..., that is: while they are in service; no one calculates the costs for dismantling in the future but I'm afraid the taxpayer has to pay the price).
So this is also a test for the auxiliary boilers; they have to be able to produce enough steam to cool the steamturbines of the starting units.
Normally we have always a minimum of one unit running during the weekend, producing enough auxiliary steam together with one auxiliary boiler.

All turbines are mounted on one single shaft, including the gasturbine.
We start up with the gasturbine, with the HP and MP steamturbine running in idle. We have to cool the large blades of the LP steamturbine with 29 tons of auxiliary steam per hour when the shaft runs up to 3000 RPM.
Due to ventilation losses the LP turbine generates a lot of heat.
When the temperatures of steam and metal of the steamturbine are within range we put the steamturbine in service.

The digits on the lower row implicate MVar; this is reactive power, due to the capacity of the grid.
Read also this article.

And we produce a little wind energy.. (4.23 MegawWatts)

Here in LARGE....

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